Life in a day is a film experiment created by YouTube where they ask everybody to record their activity on a single day. On july 24th 2010 thousands of people around the globe started recording their day. At the end of the day, they had over 80 000 submitted video’s. Ridley Scott, known director for movies like Gladiator and Thelma & Louise, was involved and the result is a cinematic experience of our everyday lives around the world.
I have embedded the movie in this post, beware, it’s over an hour long so if you are busy or you’re short on time I’d suggest you have patience and watch it when you’re relaxed and have all the time in the world. It’s quite fascinating to see how all those stories, some only a couple of seconds long, come together in a bigger picture. Just looking at it makes you realise, we are awesome. We are awesome just by being ourselves!
Recently I talked about how most films in Hollywood use only 2 colors, teal and orange. The sad fact is that the lack of creativity in color grading is almost a metaphore for what’s really going on in the mighty hills of California. We see more and more sequels and remakes in theatre. A geniune good movie is hard to find and more and more people are moving on to the more ‘arthouse’ type of movies. But I’m not going to talk about that, I’m going to talk about the few GOOD movies you might not have spotted throughout the past years. I’m going to talk about the few directors with the guts to pull off a movie against mainstream pressure!
Iconography might just be what design is all about! How do you summarize the feeling and essence of an object in a basic icon? I have nothing but respect for designers who can pull it off nicely. Kyle Tezak is one of those people, he started his own project where he tried to tell one of his favorite stories with only 4 icons. I have to say, he did a fine job in doing so!
When I was creating my demoreel, I was curious about how you get the best color grading so I did a little research! I found a post on Into The Abyss about color grading in Hollywood. He found out that most of Hollywood’s blockbusters have a pattern in color grading. They always use 2 colors: teal and orange. Teal is mostly used for surroundings and shadows while orange highlights the main character. But it doesn’t stop there, there are examples in which the whole damn scene is teal or orange! The author of that post give us some screenshots of the blockbuster Transformers and he’s absolutely right!
As I’m doing my very best to refresh and update my writing here, I’ll be making some posts in which I talk about a single company or artist or thought, instead of just rambling on about everything. First one to talk about is…Spy Films! Spy Films is a worldwide award-winning production house with an amazing portfolio. Obviously, as a production house, they work with multiple directors, one of them being Alex Roman. The thing is, everytime I watch one of their video’s, I can’t help but wonder how they did it! The storytelling in particular is always tremendous. Anyway, images are worth a thousand words, so I’ve collected some of my favorites in this post, be sure to check them out!
